The idea of her little family looking fresh and new for once in their lives made her restless with excitement.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

Huge amounts of water ran into a low area in the dry, waterless desert that had once been an ancient lake.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

Once,on a business trip to London, Charles Homer bought a set of drawing examples for his son to copy.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

Union troops quickly moved into Richmond.Then they raised the United States flag over the once proud capital of the Confederacy.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

It got its nickname, The Garden State, because New Jersey truck farms once provided vegetables to those big cities.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

An actor who worked with Katharine Hepburn once said that she brought with her an extra level of reality.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

As she told a friend once: "In a life that stopped guessing, you and I should not feel at home."

VOA: special.2010.07.18

His ideas were so endless that he was not even troubled when he once lost some music he had been writing.

VOA: special.2009.02.08

Once he sets eyes on her, or sees her, she might try to get him interested in her by acting playful.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

They walk along the Frijoles stream lined with green trees that once was the only water supply for the valley.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

Women who said they were physically active even once a week showed less cognitive impairment as measured by a test.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

In the beginning, Special English had one fifteen-minute news show that was broadcast to Africa and Asia once a day.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

Pieter Hoff says the nice thing about the siphons is that, once collected, the water is not able to evaporate anymore.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

But Professor Roth says even the best political leaders cannot unite a country once a society's problems get out of control.

VOA: special.2009.12.19